Open Science - A practical guide for early-career researchers (2023), Brinkman, L., Dijk, E., de Jonge, H., Loorbach, N., & Rutten, D.

What is this about?

Open Science, a Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers (2023), produced in the Netherlands, provides actionable guidance to make research outputs as open as possible while respecting ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security. It covers open access to publications, preferred Creative Commons licensing, deposition in trusted repositories, persistent identifiers, and FAIR-aligned data management plans. Researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers share responsibilities: planning for openness, retaining rights, acknowledging funding, providing infrastructure and training, and supporting interoperability. Limited embargoes or exceptions for sensitive data must be transparently justified. The guide emphasizes equity, zero-embargo access, multilingual communication, and minimizing publication costs, while prioritizing the quality of openness metadata, reproducibility, and machine-readability over publication counts. It aligns with international initiatives such as Plan S and EOSC, and provides practical examples, FAQs, and workflows. By consolidating dispersed rules into a coherent framework, it helps early-career researchers comply efficiently and contribute to a transparent, inclusive research ecosystem in the Netherlands.

For whom is this important?

All stakeholders in research

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